The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1892, Page 32

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

—THERE are 12,000 mission schools sus-
tained by the offerings of Protestant Chris-
tians. They are teaching some 600,000 chil-
dren and young people.

—Tne China Inland Mission reports 123 ad-
ditions to its force the past year, making the
whole number now engaged in that work 512,
occupying 94 different points.

—Tne Friendly Islands fifty years ago had
not a native Christian; now there are more
than 30,000 church members, who give from
their scanty store $15,000 annually for re-
ligious objects.

—Taerr is no missionary in Afghanistan,
with her 6,000,000 people. Annam, with
5,000,000, has only Roman Catholic mission-
aries. India has one missionary to 275,000
people; Persia, 100,000 to 300,000; Thibet,
1,000,000 to 2,000,000.

—AnonG the receipts of the Basle Mission-
ary Society last year were $58,000 from poor

mae friends of the society, who subscribed one cent

aweek. Collectors obtained the amount from
them once in ten weeks.

—TueE Moravian Church in the foreign field
has 135 stations and out-stations, 295 mission-
ary agents, 59 native missionaries, 1664 native

assistants, and 31,480 communicants.. The
missions are in Greenland, Labrador, Alaska,
our own country, the East and West Indies,
Demerara, the Moskito Coast, Surinam, Africa,
Australia, North Queensland and Central Asia.

—ARCHDEACON Kirsy who as a missionary
“spent twenty-seven years among the Indians
of Rupert’s land, says: ‘‘ There is no better
argument for Christianity than a congregation

_ of Indians repeating in their own tongue the
_ Apostles’ Creed.’’ There are now 10,000 bap-
_ tized Indian Christians leading consistent lives,
and reading daily the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
—Japan had but ten Christian converts in

1872. According to statistics just now pub-
lished, there are now 31,181, of whom 5542

__-were receivéd into the churches last year.

Twenty-six missionary societies are at work in

_ the empire, and already there are no less than
fourteen theological seminaries, with nearly
)0 native students for the ministry. The
ddhist priests have dwindled from 244,000

-—Mapacascanr, early in the century, was
nation of fierce idolaters. ‘The first mission-
were told that they might as well try to
attle. The most inhuman cruelties

iced upon the first converts, and as

', 2000 were put to death for their

urch that went under the

can read. Madagascar has. more than 5000
ordained and native preachers.

—aArnica has now at work within her bor-
ders ten American, twelve British, and thir-
teen continental missionary societies. There
are more than 700 ordained missionaries, and
more than 7000 native preachers. It is esti-
mated that there are, both white and native,
about °175,000 communicants, and 800,000
adherents. ‘The Congo region, so recently
opened, now has a chain of mission stations
extending almost from the mouth of the river
to the equator, and five large steamers are
engaged in mission work on the Upper Congo.

—‘*Wuy DID YoU NOT COME SOONER ?”’—A sad
cry from a widow’s heart comes in a letter from

a missionary, Mr. Cooper, to China’s Millions. |°

He writes: ‘‘In a house where there were four
believers we held two meetings, and stayed
the night. There lives here a widow of one
of the sons of the family. My companion,
Mr. Tsu, asked her if she believed the glad
tidings. ‘Yes,’ she said in a plaintive voice,
‘I believe, and my brothers believe; but oh,
why did you not come a few years sooner?
then my husband might have believed. But
now it is too Jate for him.’ That cry has been
ringing in my ears ever since. ‘Why did you
not come sooner?’ How many millions there
are in this dark land for whom it will soon be
too late! And yet some at home seem to think
that the statements of missionaries, as to the
awful need of workers to go to Christ’s heathen
in China, are extrayagant.’’

—Tue British and Foreign Bible Society,
at its annual meeting held in Exeter’Hall, re-
ported that nearly 4,000,000 copies of the
Bible, Testament and portions have been dis-
tributed during the last year. ‘The increase
on the previous year was 62,680, and the total
number of copies issued since the society com-
menced its work in 1804 has reached the figure
of 131,844,796. During the year versions in
seventy languages had received editorial re-
vision, and nine new versions had been printed.

—Own a mossgrown slab in the graveyard
at Rowley is the epitaph of the Rey. Ezekiel
Rogers, the first minister of that town, who
died in 1660, in his seventieth year. It closes
as follows: ‘‘With the youth he took great
pains, and was a tree of knowledge laden with
fruit which the children could reach.’’

—A youne man thinking he was called to
preach the Gospel, wrote to a faithful old
minister, as follows: ‘‘I think I am called by
the Spirit to preach; how much do you think
I can make a year?’’ ‘The reply was, ‘*The

question you ask shows you are not called.’’| pi

—A COACHMAN, pointing to one of his horses,
said to a traveler, ‘‘That horse, sir, knows
when I swear at him.’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ replied the
traveler, ‘‘and so does your Maker.”

—Ay old colored preacher in Atlanta, Ga.,
was lecturing a youth of his fold about the

bt | sin of dancing, when the latter protested that
|the Bible plainly said, ‘‘There’s a time to

dance.’’ ‘‘Yes; dar am a time to dance,”
said the colored divine; ‘‘and it’s when a boy
gets a whippin’ for goin’ to a ball.’’
—'‘THERE are two sides to everything,”
said an infidel lecturer; ‘‘I repeat it, there are’
two sides—’”’ At this juncture a tired-looking
little man stood up in the front seat to say :—
‘‘Well, if you’ve no objections, I will just step
out and see if there are two sides to this hall. :
I know there is an inside, and if I find there
is an outside you’!l know it by my not coming
back. You needn’t be alarmed if I shouldn’t
return.’’ And as he walked up the aisle he was
followed by the admiring eyes of the whole
audience. Their sympathies were with him,
but they were deficient in moral courage.
—'Tnoven a decided Christian, he was not
a bigot.’’ Well, it may be that such a notice
is praise, but for the most part it means that
his principles sat loosely on him. Pat was
reeling home when a friend met him and said,
“Why, Pat, I thought you had become a tem-
perance man.” . ‘So I am,”’ said Pat, ‘‘but
not a big-big-bigoted one.’’ ;

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches, |
NEw ORLEANS, La.

EV. LUTH. ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL.
113 Annette Str., between Claiborne and Dirbigny.
Divine services at 10 o’clock Sunday morning and at 74
o'clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School from 9 to 1044.

EV. LUTH. MT. ZION CHURCII.
Cor. Franklin and Thalia Strs.
Divine services at 7}4 Sunday evening and at 744 Thurs-
day evening.
Sunday School meets at 9 o'clock.
Adult catechumen class meets at 744 Tuesday evening.
F. LANKENAU, Missionary.

EV. LUTH. TRINITY CHURCH.
Zimple Str., between Monroe and Leonidas.
. CARROLLTON.
Divine services at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon and 744

o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o’clock.

EV. LUTH. BETHLEHEM CHAPEL.
Cor. Washington Avenue and Dryades Str.
Divine services at 744 o’clock Sunday evening and at 74
o'clock Thursday evening.
Sunday School at 9 o'clock.
AuG. BURGDORF, MISSIONARY.

St. Paul’s Colored Lutheran Church.
Cor. Rock § 12th Sirs., Little Rock, Ark.
Divine service Sunday evening at 734 o'clock.
Sunday School from J0—12.
Catechumen class meets from 7—8 Wednesday cyening.
Singing-school from S—9 Wednesday evening.

Ey. Luth. Holy Trinity Church.
Springfield, Ml.

Divine Services at half past 10 o'clock Sunday morning
. and at 8 o'clock Sunday evoning.
Sunday School at3 o’clock ». M.
Catechumen class meets Monday and Friday evenings.
Singing-school Tuesday evening.
H. S. KNABENSCHUH, Missionary.

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